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<DIV><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Spatial Data Infrastructure — Africa (SDI-Africa) is a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The April 2008<FONT size=2> issue includes (among many other items):</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><A href="http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav7n4.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAfricav7n4.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Establishment of the Swaziland Integrated Geo-spatial Information System (SIGIS) for economic development planning</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Implementation of the Committee for the Promotion Geographical Information in Chad</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Liberian nationwide population census 2008 started on March 21st</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Burkina Faso: Atelier sur la production des métadonnées</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Kenya National Spatial Data Infrastructure (KNSDI) Newsletter No. 6</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Workshop on Building Local Partnerships in Earth Observations, 1 April 2008, Pretoria, South Africa</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Africa mostly mapped for road navigation services</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Reducing biodiversity loss: new JRC tool to help protect Africa's wildlife</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 7th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) - abstract deadline extended to 30 June 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Workshop on Environment Statistics, 19-23 May 2008, Abuja, Nigeria </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Association of American Geographers (AAG) offers membership program for developing regions </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Social networking for GIS professionals</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Making the most of geospatial data exchange: a guide for data distribution </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Hydrogeological map of Africa </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- VGT4AFRICA: dissemination of some POSTEL products to African users via Eumetcast is operational </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Spatial analysis of the relationship between early childhood mortality and malaria endemicity in Malawi </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Mapping road infrastructure in developing countries: applying remote sensing and GIS – the case of the Taita Hills, Kenya</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- SADC Regional Training Opportunities for Professional Skills Improvement in Land and Water Management </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Distance Education (free) - Lund University GIS Centre Master's Programme in GIS, deadline 15 April 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- OpenStreetMap Grants</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- GeoWeb 2008 Student Contest, deadline 15 May 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 2008 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration, deadline 14 April 2008 </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Mashariki Innovations in Local Government Awards Programme (MILGAP), deadline 30 April 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (IDRC) Travel Grants, deadline 15 April 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Lecturer - Surveying and Photogrammetry, ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands, deadline 15 April 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Assistant Professor - Geo-information and Organizations, ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands, deadline 28 April 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Post-Doctoral Position – Africa, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA, deadline 18 April 2008</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- How to Develop a pro-Poor Land Policy: Process, Guide and Lessons </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Climate Change in Eastern and Southern Africa: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- 3rd SADC-EU International Scientific Symposium - Towards meeting the challenges of climate change: Institutional structures and best practices in land and water management in Southern Africa, 26-31 May 2008, Lusaka, Zambia </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SDI-Africa has been published monthly since May 2002 and has wide circulation across Africa. Each issue highlights recent activities, provides details about available data and tools, and includes notices about upcoming training, employment and funding opportunities, and events. The aim is to strengthen national SDI initiatives and support synchronization of regional geospatial activities. Past and current SDI-Africa newsletters are accessible at the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association website at </FONT><A href="http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#800080>http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.asp</FONT></A> <FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">. Regional newsletters for Latin
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There is also an SDI-Africa Email Discussion List, </FONT><A href="http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/sdi-africa" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#800080>http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/sdi-africa</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> , with intermittent news and announcements of opportunities (this email discussion list is separate from the SDI-Africa Newsletter list). The archives are accessible at: </FONT><A href="http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#800080>http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/sdi-africa/</FONT></A> <FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">, and you can sign up to send and receive
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